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Pecha Kucha

February 23rd, 2008 | openstudio, research, talks | 3 Comments »

Highlights from an Experiment in Creativity, Community, and Capitalism.

Last night I presented some highlights from Openstudio at Pecha Kucha Boston #3. I had never been to a Pecha Kucha Night before, but really enjoyed the fast-paced format. Each speaker showed 20 slides at 20 seconds per slide, sharing their art/design work and/or philosophy. If you’re curious, here’s a PDF of my slides, and the organizers will be posting more pictures from the event in the Pecha Kucha Boston Flickr group.

Putting together the presentation for the slideshow made me a little nostalgic about being in the Openstudio community. It was fun to revisit the project and look at some of the creative things people did with it.

New Year, New Ideas

January 8th, 2008 | research | No Comments »

Happy New Year!

I’ve spent some time lately thinking about an idea that came out of a conversation with my adviser, John, at the beginning of last semester, but I had forgotten about until recently. We talked about what it meant to have a visualization that was “alive” in some way. I brought this up with Seth today and we spent some time trying to come up with some examples and define what “alive” means in a visualization context. We agreed to describe this type of a visualization as a “visual ecology” and he has a nice post on his blog summarizing some of our ideas. Hope I’ll have more to say about this soon.

E15 blog / Visualizing Wikipedia

October 8th, 2007 | e15, research | No Comments »

Last week we put up a blog for E15, and today I wrote my first post about some work I’ve been doing with images from Wikipedia. I was struggling to come up with some interesting paths to use for laying out images & text, when I found a good Wikipedia page with a list of different types of curves. The page didn’t have any images, though, so I wrote a script to find the related images and lay them out in E15. The results look nice so far, and I’ll be playing more with the same data this week.

E15

September 25th, 2007 | e15, research | No Comments »

The PLW presented E15 at Flashfoward last Friday. E15 is an OpenGL based programming environment with a Python scripting interface; right now we’re using it to visualize futuristic web interfaces. Screenshots and video of the project can be found at the E15 website, which will be updated as the project develops. Check back for more updates soon!

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